They Said It Was An Accident... Sawyer Dodd is a star athlete, a straight-A student, and the envy of every other girl who wants to date Kevin Anderson. When Kevin dies in a tragic car crash, Sawyer is stunned. Then she opens her locker to find a note: You're welcome. Someone saw what he did to her. Someone knows that Sawyer and Kevin weren't the perfect couple they seemed to be. And that someone—a killer—is now shadowing Sawyer's every move... "What a ride! Full of twists and turns—including an ending you won't see coming!"—April Henry, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die I will be posting new chapters of Truly Madly Deadly every WEDNESDAY as a run-up to the release of my brand new thriller See Jane Run (JAN 2014). Enjoy!

“Um, look, we can’t be best friends anymore,” He started. I felt my heart crack as soon as the words left his mouth. “What? Why not?” I asked confused. I felt the tears threaten to spill over but I blinked rapidly to push them away. “Cause I don’t want to be,” He snapped, looking towards the door. “It’s better off we’re not, I’m sorry.” *** Meet the Padley Triplets. Ryder... The oldest, Mr. Badboy, Part of the Top 4. Amber... Second oldest, Ms. Hottie, Part of the Trio. Nina... The youngest, The Sweetheart, Part of the Quad. Meet Dylan Stone. The sexy, arrogant player. Who also happens to be Nina's exbestfriend... the boy she used to be in love with. Two years after the devastation of their "break-up", Dylan has to move in with the Padleys' with his two younger siblings. Of course Nina and Dylan don't get on well. With relentless arguments, countless bets, and prank wars, will the two be able to find their way to each other again? Will Nina grow out of The Sweetheart title she was given? Will Nina find out why Dylan broke her heart two years ago? Will she fall for him once again? It all started with two words... Code Red. Humor #2 Teen Fiction #3

We hope you'll be inspired, shocked, amused, and touched by this selection of letters from the DearTeenMe.com website. 'How awesome would it be if authors wrote letters to their teen selves?' A year and a half later, you can pick up DEAR TEEN ME from Zest Books, read more on the website, or just kick back and enjoy the selection we'll be posting here. Co-curators: E. Kristin Anderson and Priya Chand. The individual letters are property of the contributing authors. We can't guarantee your head won't explode from the mix of angst and excitement, but you *will* enjoy the ride.

"I'm not okay!" I yelled at him. "Okay?! I'm not okay." My chest rose up and down as I breathed heavily. It had been years since I had a break down, and I wasn't going to have one right now. "It's okay not to be okay," he whispered, walking closer to me. He caressed my cheek, trying to sooth me. I stared at him, pain filled my eyes. I was trying hard not to cry. I couldn't cry. That's not what I did. "It's okay to cry," he comforted. His eyes stared so hard into mine I felt like he was seeing into my soul. "Crying shows weakness, and I'm not weak," I told him, swallowing hard. "Sometimes crying is the strongest thing you can do. It just shows everyone else that you're just as human as they are." And right then and there I started sobbing. I had lost all control of my emotions, I cried like I hadn't since I was little. All those times I didn't cry when I wanted to poured out now. The walls I spent so long building to make them unbreakable, broke. Alana finds a thick orange envelope in her mailbox one day. No return address, no stamp or postage mark and it's not even addressed to her. Someone had just dropped the letter off in her mailbox. The only thing written on this envelope is "You might need this... or not." Alana takes it inside and begins to read the life story of a complete stranger. The life story of someone trying to find their place in this big scary world. © Somethingtrue 2013. All rights reserved.

RULE#1: DON'T STEAL HIS HEART. After ripping off a dangerous mob boss, Ellie Phillips decides it's time to quit hustling and give up her life of crime. She just needs a big score. Then she can give up the grift and start anew. When she steals a map from Jacob Hawkins that shows the location of a huge heart-shaped diamond, she decides it's time to go treasure hunting. It's just one last hustle before she goes straight. She thinks she's made a clean getaway when she jets off to South America with the map, but Jacob isn't letting it or Ellie get away so easily. With the mob hot on her trail and the bullets flying, she finally meets her match when she ends up in Jacob's sights. HUSTLE won the SYTYCW competition from Harlequin and Wattpad in 2013.

It flows the way we don't plan it. Unexpected things happen. One move can change your life forever. Meet Allison Winter, she's your average teenage girl with a shy personality. She's never been to a high school party, she has never drank, and she has never had a boyfriend. But all of that changes when she meets Aiden Black AKA Grant East High School bad boy. Aiden Black is an obnoxious rich popular bad boy. He does what he wants, when he wants to. All girls are head over heels for him. Guess what happens when a tragedy occurs that changes Allison's life forever. When you mix good and bad. When you share tears and smiles.

It's a bet. Melody Evans is a mature, smart girl while her best friend, Noah Freely is a conceited player. When Melody gets broken up with, Noah devises a bet between the two of them involving them basically switching places. Melody has to hook up with all the single guys in her grade before Noah makes a girl fall in love with him for a huge reward but if she doesn't then she'll have to face public humiliation. What happens when the two of them have their own secrets going on during this bet? It's time for Melody to step it up and be like Noah by playing his little game. Cover made by xsnowberryx!

-My name's Karin. I'm 15....I don't even know if I'm human... Can you classify me as human... I'm not like everyone else, I've got powers only a few posses, and naturally I'm "special" and the center of attention, yay me! (Note the sarcasm). My life hasn't been the greatest, lost my parents at a young age and now I've got a rapist on my heels. Be prepared for fighting, blood, sex and swearing. *sigh* My names Karin and I don't plan on being friends with you.- Karin is living a life full of pain and hatred. She just wants to escape from it all... Can she? Will she ever find it in her cold, dead heart to trust anyone ever again...?

Grace and Kya always do everything together, and nothing can get in the way of their friendship. But then Levi comes along...just as things are starting to shift. The girls have paintball and they have their other best friend James, but something is wrong between James and Kya too, and Grace needs to figure out what it is. Grace has always been there for Kya. Only Grace knows what Kya's been through. Besides, Kya keeps life exciting-pulling Grace into things she'd never dare to do on her own. But daring is starting to turn dangerous. And Grace has to decide how far she can go ...before she ends up losing everything else.

Kayla Mays knows first hand what it's like loving the wrong guy. All her life she's loved the one person who could never love her back. She was the girl who could bag any boy she wanted. She was the Wild One. Now in a place where her perfect sisters image can't touch her, Kayla decides to live the life she always wanted. When she thinks she might have found The One, the guy who she currently calls her boyfriend, everything seems to fall into place. That is until a someone from the past makes their way into her future. Sterling Parker is a changed man. From the untouchable good boy who was her best friends love, to a part time cop who's body is harder than his personality. Sterling is the one thing she never saw coming. She knew then he wasn't hers to have and he still isn't. But why is it that when the tough as stone cop asks to hide out in her apartment does she agree? And why, after all these years, does she still want the one thing he couldn't give her before? Through love, hate, lies, and trust, you will learn what happens when two people are thrown together and pleasure and passion become the one thing they can't deny. He's her guilty pleasure and for Kayla, being bad has never felt so good.